भट्टिकाव्यम् (रावणवधः)

Verse 61

गिरि-परिगत-चञ्चलाऽऽपगाऽन्तं जल-निवहं दधतं मनोऽभिरामम् । गलितमिव भुवो विलोक्य रामं धरणि-धर-स्तन-शुक्ल-चीन-पट्टम् ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: -(a reservoir) that contained a mass of water that had its end (periphery) in the lowing rivers that encircled the mountains and that was delightful to the mind as though (it were) the white silken garment fallen from the Earth's breasts in the form of mountains.

Verse 62

अ-परिमित-महाऽद्भुतैर्विचित्रश्च्युत-मलिनः शुचिभिर्महान-लङ्घ्यैः । तरु-मृग-पति-लक्ष्मण-क्षितीन्द्रैः समधिगतो जलधिः परं बभासे ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: Devoid of dirt, the vast multicoloured ocean shone excellently (when) arrived at by the immeasurably and highly marvellous, pure and unsurpassable lord of the monkeys, Laksmana and King (Rama ).

Verse 63

न भवति महिमा विना विपत्ते- रवगमयन्निव पश्यतः पयोधिः ।अ-विरतमभवत्क्षणे क्षणेऽसौ शिखरि-पृथु-प्रथित-प्रशान्त-वीचिः ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: As if making the onlookers realise (that) greatness is not (there) without calamity, the ocean became incessantly possessed of mountain-like, lofty, broad and steady billows moment after moment,

Verse 64

मृदुभिरपि बिभेद पुष्प-बाणैश्चलशिशिरैरपि मारुतैर्ददाह । रघु-तनयमनर्थ-पण्डितोऽसौ न च मदनः क्षतमाततान्नाऽर्चिः ॥

Karandikar: Cupid, that expert in mischief, with his flower arrows, though (they were) delicate , injured and, with the breezes, though (they were) cool with water, scorched the descendant of Raghu ; (yet) he (Cupid) produced neither a Wound nor a flame.

Verse 65

अथ मृदु-मलिन-प्रभौ दिनाऽन्ते जलधि-समीप-गतावतीत-लोकौ ।अनुकृतिमितरेतरस्य मूर्त्योर्दिन-कर-राघव-नन्दनावकार्ष्टाम् ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: Then, at the end of the day, (the two), the sun and Raghu's descendant, the lustre of both of whom was soft and dim and who (two) had arrived near the ocean practised an imitation of each other's forms.

Verse 66

अपहरदिव सर्वतो विनोदान्दयित-गतं दधदेकधा समाधिम् । घन-रुचि ववृधे ततोऽन्धकारं सह रघु-नन्दन-मन्मथोदयेन ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: Thereafter, as if snatching away diversions (entertain ments) from everywhere, bearing a single-aimed concentration. fixed on his beloved, the cloud-coloured darkness increased along with the rise of Cupid (love) in Rama.

Verse 67

अधि-जलधि तमः क्षिपन्हिमांशुः परिददृशेऽथ दृशां कृताऽवकाशः । विदधदिव जगत्पुनः प्रलीनम्। भवति महान्हि पराऽर्थ एव सर्वः ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: Then the moon which provided (some) scope for the eyes, was seen dispersing the darkness upon the ocean (and), recreating, as it were, the world that had merged. For, all that is magnanimous exist just for the benefit of others

Verse 68

अशनिरयमसौ कुतो निरभ्रे। शित-शर-वर्षम-सत्तदप्य-शार्ङ्गम्। ।इति मदन-वशो मुहुः शशाऽङ्के रघु-तनयो न च निश्चिकाय चन्द्रम् ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: ‘(Is) this the thunderbolt ? Whence that, too, in a cloudless sky? A shower of sharp arrows ? That too (has to be) non-existent without a bow.” (Thinking) thus again and again. Rama who was under the sway of Cupid, could not conclude (that it was) the moon.

Verse 69

कुमुद-वन-चयेषु कीर्ण-रश्मिः क्षत-तिमिरेशु च दिग्-वधू-मुखेषु । वियति च विललास तद्-वदिन्दुर्विलसति चन्द्रमसो न यद्-वदन्यः ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: The moon who had scattered its rays on beds of night-lotuses and the faces of the ladies, viz., the quarters, where from darkness was annihilated, shone so gracefully in the sky, as none else than moon could shine.

Verse 70

शरणमिव गतं तमो निकुञ्जे विटपि-निराकृत-चन्द्र-रश्म्यरातौ । पृथु-विषम-शिलाऽन्तराल-संस्थं स-जल-घन-द्युति भीत-वत्ससाद ॥

Metre: पुष्पिताग्रा

Karandikar: Seated in the interstices between huge uneven boulders, the darkness whose colour was like that of a water-cloud and which had gone for shelter in the bowers where from the enemies in the form of the moonrays were driven out by the trees, hid itself like one frightened.

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